CHAPTER SEVEN:
THE BAGEL

The dislike that the Hargreeves had for Vanya started when she wrote her book. The extra ordinary. The book that gave out all the secrets they had.

It was a surprise for Alex when he found Klaus and Ben sitting in a group therapy and reading a book.

He walked to them with a look of confusion.

"Is Klaus reading a book."  He asked as he got right behind Ben.

He didn't get any response. The two were so invested in the book that they didn't hear him.

"Hey I just found out that I can make myself solid, wanna have sex Klaus?" Alex said just to see if they were listening.

Klaus immediately turned his head towards his lover with a stupid grin on his face. The book forgotten.

"Really?"

"Gross."

Were two responses he got from the two.

Alex gave Klaus a look. "No you idiot."

He glanced at the book. "What you guys reading?" He asked the two and was met with a surprising response.

"Vanya wrote a book about us-" Ben began.

"That's great!"

"- and outed all our secrets." Ben finished.

Alex's happy expression froze. And a frown took it's place. "That's not too great."

Klaus nodded. "It's not, come read it with us?"

Alex shrugged, "sure, I got nothing better to do."

And that's how the three of them read the book about themselves.

"My name is Vanya Hargreeves, and this is my story. We were never a real family."

Alex frowned. They might have been some complications in the family- such as having a robot for a mother and a cold hearted man for a father- but they still had each other and that's what he called family.

"We were our father's creation, family in name, but not in fact.

In the end, after our brother Ben had died, there was really nothing connecting us.
We were just strangers living under the same roof"

"What about Alex?" Ben asked in confusion. Alex was a part of the family, he should have been mentioned.

"destined to be alone"

"starved for attention"

"damaged by our upbringing"

"Oh, my God. She wrote that?" Ben asked in disbelief.

"I can't believe she would do that." Alex shook his head.

"Shh!" Klaus shushed them both and they went back to reading.

"and haunted by what might have been. We all wanted to be loved by a man incapable of giving love.

Our father never missed an opportunity to remind me that I was ordinary.
A hard thing for a little girl to hear.

If you're raised to believe nothing about you is special, if the benchmark is extraordinary, what do you do if you're not?"

The three finished the book in silence. They had no idea that their sister felt like that.

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After Klaus' dramatic way of getting us the information we needed, and finding out that the information was useless, and then hearing Five say that we only have a week to save earth from apocalypse-imagine the look of surprise on my face- and to Klaus' disappointment, not getting the 20 bucks he was promised, we decided to go back to the academy.

"'What about my consent bitch?'" Klaus said as we were walking home.

Alex sighed, "Klaus you've said that a million times from when we left Five, or more like when he left us but whatever."

Klaus giggled like a school girl. "But it was fun. When I smashed the globe," Klaus laughed loudly making some people turn and look at him. "Hilarious!"

He laughed some more as Alex look at him with a soft smile.

He missed Klaus' laugh.

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After leaving Five, Alex forced Klaus to go and start looking for dad's stuff. And that's how they found themselves in a dumpster. Klaus knee-deep into garbage, Ben sitting on the edge of the dumpster and Alex was sitting on the opposite side of where Ben was.

"Damn it, where's Dad's stuff?" Klaus grunted softly as he looked in the garbage.

"Can we go see a movie or something?" Ben asked, bored out of his mind. He wasn't the only one. Alex was counting how many times Klaus came by a sock. Surprisingly, the number was high.

Alex perked up at the mention of leaving there and actually doing something. "Or the ocean?" He suggested. 

"Shut up!  I'm trying to find whatever priceless crap was in that priceless box so that Pogo will get off my ass!" Klaus shouts at the two and then got back to looking for the box.

Alex groaned. "This wouldn't be a problem if you hadn't thrown the stuff in it out! You could have left them somewhere in the house and then Pogo would be fine with having the stuff there."

Klaus only grunted. 

Alex heard the sound of someone coming down the fire escape. As he looked up, he saw Five come down with a big-ass bag on his back.

"I'd ask what you're up to, Klaus, but then it occurred to me I don't care." Five said as he climbed down the final steps.

"Hey!You know there are easier ways out of the house, buddy?" Klaus laughed an asked.

"This one involved the least amount of talking." Five looked at Klaus, "Or so I thought."

"We're great company." Alex said pretending to be offended.

As Five began to walk away Klaus called him, "Hey, hey, hey, so You need any more company today? I could, uh clear my schedule."

Alex and Ben gave each other looks, " I thought today's plan was to steal some stuff and go watch a movie?"

Alex shrugged, "I don't know man, that's what he said."

Fortunately- or unfortunately- Five declines the kind offer his dear brother gave him.

"Looks like you've got your hands full."

Klaus looked down at himself.
"Oh, this? No, no. I can do this whenever."

"I'm just-" there was some clattering as Klaus jumped back into the garbage and looked around for something. "I just misplaced something. That's all."

"More like lost." Ben told his brother-the dead one.

"Oh! Found it!" Klaus came back up with a half-eaten bagel. "Thank god." He sighs in relief.

Alex looked like a question mark at that point.

And then Klaus just had to do it.

He took a bite out of the bagel. The bagel that was in the dumpster for god knows how long.

Alex gagged as Ben just looked disgusted. Probably because he spent more time with Klaus than Alex did.

Five also looked disgusted, but that was expected.

"Delicious." Klaus said like that bagel was better than his mom's cooking. It was not.

"I'm done funding your drug habit." Five said and walked away.

"Come on! You don't Maybe I just wanna hang out with my brother." Klaus shouted After Five. 

Alex and Ben gave him a look.

"Not you."

"Mi hermano! I love you! Even if you can't love yourself!" He said and then spat out the bagel that he was eating.

Alex turned to Ben. "You hold him, I kill him."

Ben glanced at his idiotic brother and then to the slightly less idiotic brother and nodded. 

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After Five left, we stayed and looked for the stuff for a few more minutes that's until Luther came and asked about Five. Why he thought that the golden trio knew something was beyond them.

Klaus led the other members of the golden trio and Luther to where they saw Five sitting in the van he was in earlier.

Alex got in the back and saw a mannequin. He gave it a funny look and turned to look at his younger-but-so-much-older brother.

He had a blank look. Luther knocked on the window making the poor boy jump.

Luther came in and sat in the passenger sit. Klaus came from the back and as he saw the mannequin, he got a crazy look.

That's how Klaus stared dancing with a mannequin.

"You okay?" Luther asked. Concerned for his brother.

"You shouldn't be How did you find me?" Five questioned.

Luther just pointed to the back where Klaus and his dead lover were. Not that they could see the dead.

Klaus was dancing with the mannequin when he noticed the attention that was on him.

"Um Hey, baby Hey, a little privacy, guys.
We're really hitting it off back here."  Klaus said not bothering to stop his stupid dance.

Alex was sitting and enjoying the show. Ben missed all the fun.

"Get out! You can't be here! I'm in the middle of something." Five shouted making Alex raise an eyebrow. What was the kids problem?

"Any luck finding your one-eyed man?" Klaus asked ignoring the previous screaming.

Five got an hopeless look on. "No."

"What's he talkin' about?" Luther questioned the two.

"Does it matter? It's Klaus." Five dismissed.

"Ouch." Alex said with a monotone voice making Klaus look at him. Alex didn't like the way his siblings treated his lover. Dismissing him and acting like he's not worth it. It's like they forgot the meaning of family and what Klaus is like.

While Alex was thinking, he missed the whole conversation and only zoomed back in when the two decided to kick Klaus out of the van.

"Hey!" Klaus said out of nowhere. "Did I ever tell you guys about the time I waxed my ass with chocolate pudding?" Klaus laughed. "It was so painful."

Alex rolled his eyes. "I know, I was there you idiot. And you did that right after what had just happened!"

Klaus gave his lover a wink.

"What are you still doing here?"

"What? I What? I need an excuse to hang out with my family?" Klaus said offended.

"We're trying to have a serious conversation." Luther the Moran said.

"What, and I'm incapable of being serious? Is that what you're saying?"

"Luther's got a point." Five the meanie agreed.

"You should get out."

"What? Fine!" Klaus said and started to get out the van. "Come On Alex, you don't want to hang out with these two."

Alex gave his brothers an evil look and then followed his Klaus.

Five and Luther looked at each other. They knew if their brother was alive, they were doomed. Family was an important thing for Alex and he did not tolerate this kind of behavior.

Klaus and Alex walked into a store. Alex was idly looking around when he heard some one shouting, "Hey! Stop!" And the sound of running.

He sighed knowing that it was his lover.  Only he would do such a thing.

"Whoo!" Definitely Klaus.

Alex got next to his lover who had his hands full. Literally.

"Hey! Stop right now!" The security said as he ran after Klaus.

"Hey, bitches!" Klaus said as he ran.

Alex just shook his head. A normal day in the lives of Alex and Klaus Hargreeves.

He could see that Five and Luther were looking at Klaus as well. Probably everyone was.

Klaus shouted as Alex heard tires screeching, "Out of the way, asshole!"

Alex wanted to die, again.

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